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FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The 41st president will spend Christmas in a Houston hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough. Bushâs spokesman Jim McGrath said Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, that doctors remain âcautiously optimisticâ that he will recover, but they want to keep him in the hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Ex-President Bush spends Christmas in hospital

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 25, 2012 9:37 pm

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The 41st president will spend Christmas in a Houston hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough. Bushâs spokesman Jim McGrath said Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, that doctors remain âcautiously optimisticâ that he will recover, but they want to keep him in the hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Ex-President Bush to spend Christmas in hospital

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 24, 2012 11:54 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, an American bittern hides in the grass during an annual 24-hour Christmastime ritual to count birds along the Texas Gulf Coast in Mad Island, Texas. The data collected, with the help of more than 50 other volunteers spread out into six groups across the 7,000-acre Mad Island preserve, will be regionally and nationally analyzed, landing in a broad database that includes results from hundreds of other bird counts going on nationally during a two week period. What began 113 years ago as an Audobon Society protest to annual bird hunts that left piles of carcasses littered in different parts of the country now helps scientists understand how birds react to short-term weather events, such as drought and flooding, and seek clues on how they might behave as temperatures rise and climate changes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 22, 2012 7:40 pm

Members of several groups opposed to the planned XL Pipeline protest outside the Nacogdoches County Courthouse in Nacogdoches, Texas, on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, as landowner Michael Bishop, in window at right, goes over papers prior to a hearing. An East Texas judge is to hear arguments from the Keystone XL oil pipeline developer to lift a temporary halt on construction on a private property. TransCanada will make its plea to Nacogdoches County Court-at-Law Judge Jack Sinz. TransCanada is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The property rights dispute is the latest legal battle to plague a project that has encountered numerous obstacles nationwide. Texas landowner Michael Bishop obtained a temporary restraining order from Sinz last Friday, arguing that TransCanada lied to Texans when it said it would be using the Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil. (AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig) MANDATORY CREDIT

Texas judge lifts order on TransCanada pipeline

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 13, 2012 10:22 pm

Texas judge halts TransCanada oil pipeline work

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 11, 2012 9:58 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Scott Alford, center, a soil conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, points out features of a manmade marsh to Harris Sherman, right, undersecretary for natural resources and the environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Julie Grogan-Brown, left, also with the USDA, near Baytown, Texas. The marsh is part of a project to restore lost wetlands and islands off the Texas coast. A report released to The Associated Press says the Natural Resources Conservation Service has already committed more than a half-billion dollars to the Gulf Coast in the past two years, nearly one-fifth of it on projects directly linked to recovery from the 2010 oil spill. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

APNewsBreak: Feds funnel millions into Gulf Coast

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 5, 2012 5:08 pm

Painful cough keeps George H.W. Bush hospitalized

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 3, 2012 5:00 pm

TransCanada gets OK for south part of oil pipeline

Ramit PlushnickMasti · July 27, 2012 9:51 pm

US man released from Dubai jail gets medical care

Ramit PlushnickMasti · July 18, 2012 10:00 pm

Men work to pump water from below the decks of the USS Texas Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Houston. The 100-year-old battleship's hull sprung a leak five days ago and has been taking on as much as 1,000 gallons of seawater every minute as workers struggle to contain it. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

100-year-old Battleship Texas springs massive leak

Ramit PlushnickMasti · June 14, 2012 12:12 am

Dozens of dolphins stranded in Texas since fall

Ramit PlushnickMasti · June 12, 2012 7:43 pm